The Death of Adonis (Rubens)

The Death of Adonis is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, executed c. 1614, now in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

It shows the dead Adonis being mourned by Venus, Cupid and the Three Graces.

[1] The painting was donated to the Israel Museum by Saul P.

[2] It represents the mythological episode of the death of the god Adonis by the fangs of a wild boar sent by Artemis.

It is one of the most represented moments in the history of art, for example by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo,[3] Poussin or Ribera.